Thread 719842765

>tfw Hollow Knight got a sequel before The X-Files got a good video game
How much longer am I gonna have to believe, bros?

>original game got a game before shit source material got a game
lol

>>719842765 (OP)
Explain to me what an x-files game would even be, what genre, what do you even do

>>719842765 (OP)
>x-files
Its time to move on grandpa. Its been over 30 years since the show started, most people who would play this game would not even know what x-files are.

>>719842872
Grand Theft Auto full of aliens, monsters, obvious massive conspiracies, but whenever you encounter these things your partner just so happens to be looking the other way

Should I watch the x files? Is it a slop everything resets every 30 minute episode solve the mystery show or is there some continuity?

>>719842765 (OP)
The first Deus Ex gives me X-Files vibes

>>719843130
Its fun but it has no concise ending and the movie was more of the same

>>719843130
There's a long running story arc involving government conspiracies and ayys, but the bulk of the show is unconnected monster-of-the-week episodes that arguably what make The X-Files what it is. There's some pretty good shit in it, but like >>719843348 said, the mythology arc kind of sucks because it has no satisfying payoff.

>>719843038
>magic attacks don't affect scully because she doesn't believe in them

>>719843130
Do not watch the two revival seasons. They ruin everything retroactively. Watch the Lost Art of Forehead Sweat and consider that to be the actual finale if you must watch any of the new seasons.

>>719843116
Hell, the FMV game was alright from what I remember.

>M: Scully, I'd like you to meet Bob Lazar, a friend of mine.
>S: Good day, Bob.
>M: Bob here used to work in Area 51 and-
>S: *roll eyes* Oh god Moulder not this again. Where do you find these nutjobs?
>M: Nut Bob not Job. Now hear me out here, OK? Bob used to work at S4 in Area 51.
>S: *sigh* S4?
>M: Secret mountainside facility. It's where the hangars are.
>S: And?
>M: And according to Bob the government runs a clandestine UFO recovery and reverse engineering program there, which he was employed at. Bob's job was to work on the power supply, the reactor core.
>S: Moulder, for the love of god..
>M: Now wait a minute. Don't pre-judge! Bob says the power source runs on element 115, and it is used to generate an anti-gravitational field.
>S: There is no element 115 on the periodic table, Moulder.
>M: I know that, but it has been *theorized* to exist.
>S: Such a large element could never be stable enough to be used as a power source.
>M: Maybe, but there is also the theory of the island of stability. There may be a metastable isotope of element 115. Elerium.

>>719843130
It is monster of the week with an overarching story that doesn't seem to go anywhere. The episodes focsuing on the overarching story are the worst ones as well. Granted, I only ever watched the first few seasons then stopped out of boredom. Watched a few episodes here and there over time. Most episodes just consist of ripping off some piece of popular media you're already well familiar with and condensing it into a worse 22 minute version of it. For example, one episode is literally just The Thing.

However, I will say it seemed like in later seasons they have a few kino episodes. Not sure if these were guest written or directed. The one that was a parody of COPS comes to mind, as well as the black and white Frankenstein episode. Again, even these are just ripoffs of other works, but were produced in a way to at least stand out and be interesting. It is probably better to just find a list of the best episodes and watch those.

>Bruce Campbell was who the network wanted for the role of Doggett but Cater said no because Bruce was never in a james cameron movie
Robbed

>>719842765 (OP)
>mfw rewatching X-Files right now
Are you in my walls?

>>719842872
itd be like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdgClA0iTE

>>719842872
It would be an open world detective game where Mulder and Scully have an overarching mystery to solve but there are also smaller cases you can do.
You drive to a new location. Look around the area. Figure out the case and kill the monster of the week.
Overaching story would be some shit about Aliens of course.
Basically like The Sinking City but less jank and set in Maryland.

>>719842872
detective game like the sherlock holmes ones

>>719844808
No
I'm in a parallel dimension

>>719843130
its good, things are cheesy by todays standards but its a solid show. like other anon said the overarching story doesnt really go anywhere
the monster of the week episodes are where the show is at its strongest

buffy the vampire slayer and twin peaks are good too. not so much aliens, but theyre both similar to xfiles in their own ways.
twin peaks is more of an actual story, buffy is like xfiles where theres monster of the week plus a story

>>719843130
It's an episodic TV series made in the 90s.
The appeal is throwing on the occasional episode and enjoying it for what it is.
It isn't some multi season long epic and it doesn't try to be.
I'd look up a list of the best episodes and give a couple of them a watch. If the best episodes don't hook you then starting from s01e01 isn't going to either.

The genie episode was great fr fr

>>719844808
yes

>>719843116
I recently played this and I started off really hopeful because the first area is pretty good. It felt like a lesser Resident Evil Outbreak.

Then it just got progressively worse and more bare as the stages went on and by the end I wanted to fucking die. Haven't done Scully's side of the story yet tho

>>719846335
>is the father of every character in the franchise (including himself) in your path

>>719842765 (OP)
Which one, /v/?

>>719848057
i'll take a 1995

>>719848057
1997 or 2002

As of now. I'm re opening the seX Files.

>>719842765 (OP)
Two of the most hyped and lived up to it and still today well regarded games are largely inspired by x-files. They came out in 2000. You know what they are. One is more effective in creating the mood, one is more like, we're too scared to try to pull that off so let's do our silly British humor instead but we will just literally recreate the series plot and pinch a few character designs etc

>>719846090
>I'd look up a list of the best episodes and give a couple of them a watch
This is a really bad idea, because what happened is it ran so long that the writers got bored and self conscious about doing 'genre' material or a formula, or whatever. So they started to wink. To put do fourth wall breaks and outright self-parody. That's fine but the problem is there's a kind of faggot retard nerd who infect say, /tv/ and reddit, who think that when someone writer winks, it's essential to prove that you see the wink and that you're like 'in on it', not someone who is being winked about, yeah? These people are vocal so any list of best episodes is dominated by the set of episodes which aren't really X-Files episodes, they're comedy pieces about the show, implicit commentaries on the show, on the phenomenon of there being a show, etc.
The worst possible place to start

>>719848057
How can a hag be so sexo? 2008 and 2019 for me.

>>719849163
What games

>>719848057
for me its all of them

>>719842765 (OP)
I remember playing that ps2 x-files game for a bit and got jumpscared by the chef in the diner kitchen. I stopped playing immediately after.

X-Files at the least got a videogame and spot in pop-culture. My beloved spirtual successor Fringe never did.

what was his deal??

>>719849820
perfect shart and gayus sex

>>719850318
This is the correct answer.

>>719848057
2018-2019

>>719852603
Same with Threshold.

>>719842872
first person adventure game like point-n-click style and spoopy aliens and feds run after you

>>719852635
Could never let go of the sandlot.

>>719842765 (OP)
I stopped around mid season 1, is it worth going through?

I can't get over how terrible first person shooter is, even viewing it as a joke episode it's so shit.

>>719842765 (OP)
because it barely works as a niche video game, let alone a mass-appeal one you retard

>>719842872
LA Noire but /x/

>>719852603
Fringe is kino but equally difficult to make a coherent game from.
Maybe a better version of The Bureau, and they play up the supernatural powers aspect

>>719855536
The first season spotty, which is kind of expected for any new show. It hits its stride early in season 2 and seasons 3-5 are unfiltered spookino.

>>719842765 (OP)
Ni**as today would call this woman a man

>>719855727
i kind of enjoyed it? is that the one where there's like a babe in this room full of dudes who act professional till shewalks out and then mulder bites his fist?

>>719842872
X-Com

>>719848057
Her and rowling are disproof of the "white women age like milk" meme

Good? Or...

>>719842872
Telltale-style point-and-click adventure game

>>719842765 (OP)
>PS1 game is great
>PS2 game is great
???

>>719842765 (OP)
>player create oc FBI intern that pissed someone off and got sent to the dead end career basement
>can take options like obsessed with esoterism or mild schizo or easily spooked for different events during missions
>initial pool of 50 different monster/human freaks with different clues each case to keep the player on his toes
>mix of talking, deducing, Scully doing her science stuff...
>costumes, hairstyles, cars, grain right from the 90s
>ost from the series
>Skinner doing phone calls to tell you he's gonna close the X-Files if you don't solve the case in a week
>can die if you fuck up
>NO super conspiracy alien invasion black oil bullshit
>only motw
>cameos from classic monsters like Tooms or Flukeman

>>719842872
You play as an alien and the goal is to probe Scully.

>>719842872
This but with Aliens

>>719842765 (OP)
stfu faggot, the ps2 game was great.

>>719848057
2014-2016 milf mommy

>>719857369
>Jakey rowling
enjoy your hag

>>719848057
2019. Also 2006, she’s got that friends mom look.

>>719843883
The comedy episodes are great though. The overarching ayy plot was always shit, after couple of seasons anyway

>>719842765 (OP)
Egg shaped ships


>>719842872
Id take shadows of doubt x LA Noire, sort of thing.
a detective game with a narrative focus, maybe like the good parts of alan wake

>>719860950
thats destroy all humans if you mod it

>>719843130
No. Its slop from a by gone era.

@719868375
why is it always tranime faggots with the shittiest takes and tastes known to mankind

>>719848057
ROLL

>>719843130
>30
50*

>>719842765 (OP)
Twin peaks got a sequel before the x-files led to anything.

>>719842872
it would be a WEG and you play as Maulder getting cucked by Scully constantly like in the TV series.

>>719842872
LA Noire style investigations where you play as Scully and at best you catch glimpses of spooky stuff, but the cases otherwise come together in coherent mundane ways while Mulder rants about crazy paranormal explanations until the player thoroughly believes he's a nutjob. NG+ has you play as Mulder and you get to see way more stuff than Scully did, in the same spirit of the show never giving her enough proof to believe. You get added conversational segments where you have to present evidence and select arguments to convince her of what you saw/learned/suspect at the end of each case. True ending comes from managing to convince her for every case. Granted, that would be a lot more effective if it was a new IP and not X-Files, since the players are primed to already know Mulder isn't crazy.

I've also heard that Alan Wake is basically if the X-Files was a game? I've never got around to trying it out though.

>>719871352
Rolling for maximum mommy Scully era. Hoping for that peak 1998 redhead power look. Anything post-2001 and we’re entering scary mom-with-a-dark-past-on-a-CBS-drama territory.

>>719875483
>Gillian Anderson will never give you a handjob and congratulate you when you cum
why even live

>>719848057
Bowlin for 2001

>>719842765 (OP)
At some point, you're supposed to realize that belief is just a tool for you to keep going and if you understand the thing you believe isn't real, the delusion is necessary because most human lack the ability to define their existence as something necessary.